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“william m sherzer”

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  • The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968

    José María Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix

    by William M. Sherzer ...
    The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968: José Maria Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix serves multiple purposes. Most importantly, it is an overview of an important moment in Spanish literary history that is connected to an extremely important moment in world history, 1968, as well as what that year represents in many countries, such as France, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women

    by Sarah Leggott ...
    Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past. It discusses the different narrative models and strategies used in these ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • In Her Words

    Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes

    by Margaret H. Persin, Jasmina Arsova, Mark Bajus, Catherine G. Bellver, Douglas K. Benson, Brenda Cappuccio, Elena Castro, Carys Evans-Corrales, Salvador J. Fajardo, Mary Makris, Martha LaFollette Miller, Sharon Keefe Ugalde, Reyes Vila-Belda, John C. Wilcox ...
    During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry, approaches the works of Gloria Fuertes from various theoretical and critical perspectives. In Her ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Artículos de costumbres

    by Mariano José de Larra

    Edited by Daniel Muñoz Sempere ...
    Series series Hispanic Texts
    This is an annotated critical edition of Artículos de costumbres by the Romantic journalist Mariano José de Larra (1809–37), presented with a critical introduction, study guide, glossary and chronology. Larra is still one of the most widely studied Spanish Romantic authors, and his satire of customs and manners in articles such as El castellano viejo, Vuelva usted mañana and Nochebuena de 1836 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Parables of Coercion

    Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

    by Seth Kimmel ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but ... Read more

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  • Imperial Lyric

    New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain

    by Leah Middlebrook ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings of representative poems by eight Peninsular writers, Imperial Lyric demonstrates that the lyric ... Read more

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  • Constructing Spain

    The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003

    by Nathan Richardson ...
    Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Edging Toward Iberia

    by Jean Dangler ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study of Iberia’s complex heterogeneity.In Edging Toward Iberia Jean Dangler argues that new tools and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Algerian Literature

    A Reader’s Guide and Anthology

    by Abdelkader Aoudjit ...
    Series Book 66 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
    The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors, and provides selections from a wide range of their writings, many translated here for the first time ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Memories of the Future

    On Countervision

    Edited by Stephen Wilson, Deborah Jaffé ...
    Series Book 6 - Cultural Memories
    What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating on the connections between memory and futurity in fields such as counter-histories, women’s ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504)

    A Discourse of Negotiation

    by Evelina Guzauskyte ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants.Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt to impose his will on the terrain. Instead, she argues that they were the result of the collisions ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Territories of History

    Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America

    by Sarah H. Beckjord ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present ... Read more

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